We have built a stronger Europe, but we need to do more & faster:
🔹 Increase support to #Ukraine

🔹Make #Russia pay for its crimes

🔹 Strengthen our defence industry & our shield against foreign information manipulations & interference

Yes, let us act. #LennartMeriConference

Day 1 #LennartMeriConference

- pre-events
- opening panel: Building a Stronger Europe
- presidential dinner
- a late-night discussion on freedom & peace

Michał Baranowski President of Iceland Věra Jourová Kaja Kallas Henry Foy Carl Bildt Marko Mihkelson Ivo Daalder Chris Chivvis Kaja Kallas

And a very well moderated panel it was with some great contributions - especially IMO from Kaja Kallas on how CEE is still viewed (too often through Russia’s lens) & Michał Baranowski on the need for CEE leadership to be recognised incl in high-level EU & NATO appointments …

We win, they lose!

Catch up with the all the talk from the #LennartMeriConference in Tallinn

#BerlinsideOut spoke to the brilliant Matthew Kroenig, Yevgeniya Gaber & Michał Baranowski
Get their key takeaways & ideas
- but beware, it’ll feed the FOMO

berlinsideout.podigee.io/25-we-win-they…

It’s 10pm - the amazing sunset in Tallinn.

Michał Baranowski: Militarily, the center of gravity has definitely shifted to the East, which should also be confirmed by leadership.

Michał Baranowski German Marshall Fund #LennartMeriConference

Fully agree with ⁦Michał Baranowski⁩ that the strategies ‘as long as it takes’ and ‘let’s not let Ukraine lose’ are failing - we do need a much clearer and bolder way forward. If we are serious about European security. #LennartMeriConference

#LennartMeriConference kicks off soon.

This year’s theme: let us not despair, but act.

I'll speak at the opening session together with President of Iceland, Věra Jourová, Michał Baranowski and Henry Foy.

🔴Tune in at 17.05: youtube.com/watch?v=3tKeXf…

“Let us not despair, but act” #LennartMeriConference beginns in #Tallin The opening panel with Věra Jourová Kaja Kallas and the President of Iceland #Johannesson and Michał Baranowski from @GMF Great to be here again. #securityconference #Estonia #NATO

I’m thrilled to speak at the opening panel of the #LennartMeriConference - definitely one of the best security conferences - sharing the panel with 🇪🇪PM Kaja Kallas , 🇮🇸President President of Iceland, 🇪🇺Vice-President Věra Jourová, and Financial Times’s Henry Foy
Join 👇
lmc.icds.ee/agenda/brave-n…

It’s great to be back in the beautiful Tallinn - I can’t wait for all the great conversations at the #LennartMeriConference - and it will be great to see all the good friends

#TbilisiProtests

“I think we are slowly getting to a point where Georgians feel let down by the EU,” said Elene Kintsurashvili, a program assistant with the German Marshall Fund. “It’s great to have statements, but it’s time to act now — otherwise we might lose Georgia.”

Dear friends, brothers and sisters, we are on your side, the side of a European Georgia 🇬🇪🇪🇺

Europe is taking defence seriously for the first time since the Cold War.

Join us tomorrow for the opening panel of #LennartMeriConference

Brave New World – Building a Stronger Europe?
Michał Baranowski President of Iceland Věra Jourová Alar Karis Henry Foy

🎦 lmc.icds.ee/agenda/brave-n…

#Georgia oped: Western leaders should not get hung up on the law (provide off-ramps, revisions). It's about GD gvmt rejecting democracy and the West. We can't let GD shape this as a GD vs. West conflict, as their conflict is with the Georgian People. gmfus.org/news/not-about…

Good morning!

Things have been developing quickly over the past 2-3 weeks in Georgia, but in the last couple of days, they have progressed at an unimaginable speed. The ruling Georgian Dream party has employed various tactics targeting civil society, escalating to an extreme level. 1/6

My latest on #Georgia - warning signs have been there for a decade, implementing the illiberal playbook step by step. Georgia: The next domino to fall in the Kremlin’s undemocratic direction politico.eu/article/georgi…

Georgia is at an inflection point. After many years of partnership, we regret Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations now hang in the balance. There is still room to return to the path the Georgian people want and deserve.

Russia has already begun to more actively prepare covert bombings, arson attacks and damage to infrastructure on European soil, directly and via proxies, with little apparent concern about causing civilian fatalities, intelligence officials believe 👇

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